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MAGGIPINTO v. REICHMAN

No. 78-2403.

607 F.2d 621 (1979)

Olympia MAGGIPINTO and her husband, Cosmo Maggipinto, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Leonard REICHMAN, D.D.S., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided October 17, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avram G. Adler, Stanley P. Kops, Adler, Barish, Daniels, Levin & Creskoff, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Daniel N. German, J. Grant McCabe, III, Rawle & Henderson, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant-appellee.

Before ADAMS and ROSENN, Circuit Judges, and LACEY, District Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

LACEY, District Judge.

In this diversity suit, Olympia Maggipinto charges the defendant, an oral surgeon, with dental malpractice and with performing oral surgery upon her without obtaining her informed consent. Her malpractice claim, grounded upon injury to her right lingual nerve, was dismissed on defendant's motion for a directed verdict, Fed.R.Civ.P. 50(a). The informed consent claim resulted...

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